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The Poetical Works of The Rev. Samuel Bishop

... To Which are Prefixed, Memoirs of the Life of the Author By the Rev. Thomas Clare

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EPIGRAM LXXX.

[Dame Fortune, in her frolic sallies]

PAR PARI.

Dame Fortune, in her frolic sallies,
Cuts men to fit,—like bakers' tallies:
For her own work, makes her own tools;
Forms fools for knaves—and knaves for fools.